‘Why don’t you come and have a feel at this, missus?’

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Mr Sampson also denied making any rude remarks himself during the reported incident in Brinklow while promoting a show taking place on Valentine’s Day.

He said: “I was distributing leaflets. She claimed Grisweld gave her a load of sexual abuse and then hid in my trousers and said ‘why don’t you come and have a feel at this, missus?’

“But Grisweld cannot get in my trousers. It never happened.

“She claimed Grisweld gave her a load of lewd words.

“Whenever he’s appeared he’s always under the vet, he’s lost his bark, he doesn’t speak. He’s like Sooty.

“My dummy can’t speak.”

Asked if he’d made any rude comments himself, he said: “I didn’t. I was absolutely stunned at the language she said was used.”

Mr Sampson insists the allegations against him are motivated by a personal grudge.

He said: “Two police officers came to see me on a Saturday morning and took my statement about the meeting in the street.

“Then I had an email saying they would like me to come to the station and make a recorded interview.

“I said I didn’t want to do that, then the PC came round the following day and said if you don’t make a recorded interview voluntarily you will have to be arrested and taken down to the police station.”

'Grisweld is definitely innocent, okay.'

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Mr Sampson, who is also a founding member of the Wurzel Bush Folk Club, said he had been performing an act with Grisweld to raise money for Comic Relief and had secured more than £300 in donations on the evening in question.

But the ventriloquist, who says he is the second cousin of famous Coventry ventriloquist Dennis Spicer, fears his good work has been undone by the allegations against him.

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He said: “He did raise nearly £300 for Comic Relief, but I would imagine the cost to the taxpayer of that interview the other week - employing two police officers to listen to it for an hour and a solicitor - would have probably cost more than we raised for Red Nose Day.”